Planning Committee - Regular Meeting

We'll start by reading the opening statement. This is the regular public hearing of the Louisville Metro Planning Commission to hear cases as advertised and documented for hearing today. Public notice has been provided and materials have been available for review by the public. The following rules are in place for today's hearing. Please silence all cell phones. Please be courteous and respectful to the commission and your fellow citizens. For those participating virtually, chat messages are not part of the record and not monitored by all members. Please refrain from sending messages to the pa

Next time I have to staff to stand up and swear you in. Raise your hand. Do you swear affirmed that the testimony that you're going to give to this commission is the truth? All right, thank you. Um, 1st, order of businesses to approve the October 1st, 2026 minutes commissioners. Have you had a chance to review the minutes? And if so, is there a motion only 1 member was absent and that was commissioner Stuber any correction or emotion.

Second. Properly made motion and second. Roll call, please.

Yes. Next is the October 5th, 2026 minutes and from the Planning Commission and Commissioner Fishner, Cheek, Steph, Stuber, Benitez, and Mims were absent that day. Have you had a chance to review the minutes and is there a motion or corrections?

Yeah, there was a very few short of us there, so if one of the commissioners that were there want to comment.

2nd, properly made motion. 2nd, roll call please stay.

Um, next, um, in business session is the approval of the corrected minutes from August 6, 2026, where a commissioner's cheek and commissioner Steph was absent. Um. If I understand it right, the changes were on case number 25, 0, 0, 3.

Yes. The next thing still in business session is 26 zone 0012, which is to set the public hearing date for a change in zoning from R4 single family residential to R5A multifamily residential and detailed district development plan, major preliminary subdivision plan with review of land disturbing activities on steep slopes greater than 20%. and unstable soils with associated binding elements. The location is 1600 Kerr's Way, and this is the one that we had to continue from a week ago, right?

Thank you. I was trying to remember the date. October the 5th, and the suggested date will be November 9th, 2026. We need a motion to set that, commissioners.

A second. Properly made motion in second roll call please.

Next is 26 LDC 0010, which is a resolution concerning assisted living residences. And our case manager is Joseph Haberman. Joe, I'll turn it over to you.

So we need a motion to, um, Instruct you to create an ordinance.

Okay. And, but do we need a motion to, we need a motion.

A second probably made motion second roll call please.

Yes. Yes. Moving into our public hearing, first case is Enforcement Zone 22000655, which is a pill of a binding element citation located at 8300 Nash Road. And our case manager is Laura Ferguson. I'll turn it over to you.

County attorney, assistant county attorney, any questions? All right, I'll move to the speakers. We have Jamie Romeo Perez and Jasmine Gutierrez. Okay, if you could both just step up. I'm gonna ask you to raise your right hand. I'll swear you in and then just before you make a statement, if you could state your full name, address and zip code, raise your right hand for me. Do you swear affirmed that the testimony that you're gonna give to this commission is the truth? All right. Whoever wants to go first can go first. Just remember, state your full name, address and zip code. Can you speak into the, yeah, pull it down a little bit. Sorry.

Okay. Yeah, we'll make that rule in here in just a second.

Um, any, uh, before you go too far, I'm sorry. Any questions commissioners? No. All right. Thank you. Now you can have a seat. Um, commissioners once again, our responsibility is, um, as it relates to enforcement zone 22, 0, 0, 0, 6, 5, 5, 5 is to, um, As the sister county attorney stated to recommend issue final order upholding the citation. We also have the right to say that the citation is not upheld and then to issue a fine or to not issue a fine. So, in your motion, you will make those 2 recommendations to uphold the citation or not. and to issue a fine or not. And the fine if we do uphol

Thank you for that. Commissioners, with that, I'll take a motion.

Properly made motion and second. Roll call, please.

yes um with that the citation was upheld however the fine was waived all right thank you um next is um 26 street name 0001 which is street name chain from out of wood lane to hans mill way um the project Oh, the project name is Heinz Millway and the case manager is Catherine Gomez. One second before you go, Catherine.

Thank you. Noted on the record. You can continue.

Any questions, Commissioners? I hear none. I'm signed up to speak for the applicant. We have Derek Triplett. Derek, if you could state your full name, address, and zip code, then I'll swear you in.

Um, do you swear firm that the testimony that you're going to give to this commission is true? I do. I think you go ahead.

All right, with that commissioners, our responsibility is to recommend the street name change to Metro Council or to recommend denial of the street name change to Metro Council.

I was going to say, yeah, it makes sense, but it was a request. Emergency services supports.

Properly made motion and second. Roll call, please.

Yes. Thank you. The next case, last case is 26 zone 0020, which is a change in zoning from R5 single family residential. And our 3 office residential to PD plan development district, and a change informed district from neighborhood to campus with associated binding elements. Our case managers Mark Pinto and before Mark begins this case has asked for extra time. So we're going to give the applicant 30 minutes. In lieu of the 15 minutes to make their presentation and anyone in opposition and the opposition representative will have 30 minutes as well. So, with that mark, I'll turn it over to you.

Any other questions? Thank you, Mark. Sign up to speak for the applicant. We have John Baker, Sarah Wagner, and Kelly Jones. Let me ask you, John, are you going to be switching in and out? Okay. Then in that case, I'm going to ask everybody to stand up. Raise your right hand for me. Do you swear affirm that the testimony that you're going to give to this commission is the truth? And then the only thing I ask is when you first speak, just state your full name, address and zip code. Go ahead, John.

Thank you. I'm sorry. Have you had something else? Because I want to kind of just continue down that. So I guess with that being said, anything built on the site will be more of a land, will be a land lease more so than selling the property to an owner. That way Jewish Community Center still controls the land. Am I thinking about that right? Absolutely.

And I, Pretty much agree with commissioner memes and that's why this is not bothering me, but I will make the statement. I kind of regurgitate it a little bit because the Jewish community center is a prominent place there. It's I respect that their vision and know that they've been a good steward of what they've done all the way down to the new existing facility. I watched it go up. So. but i would say to just along the lines of commissioner mims it is a little scary to approve something and you don't have that cohesive kind of um layout of not only materials, but actual, you know, functionali

Any other questions? And just to clarify something, I think I knew what you meant, but I think you said it wrong. John, you said that... Transportation would come after the staff approval, but that'll come. I mean, you said it. I don't know. Somebody said it, but it'll come before the approval. Correct? Okay. Plan review. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

Okay, any other questions commissioners? Thank you guys.

All right. Once again, um, oh, we don't have anyone else signed up to speak. All right. Perfect with that. We will close the, this portion of the public hearing unless any commissioner has any concern with that. Um. With that, this portion of the public hearing is closed. Once again, our request slash action is to recommend to Louisville Metro Council either approval or denial of the change in zoning from R5 single family residential and OR3 office residential to PD plan development district. And then also to recommend to Louisville Metro Council either approval or denial Of the form district

No, in an ideal world, perfect world, it would have been good to have a complementary design guide for the buildings that would be placed on. This site, because to the point, you can have a brick building, you can have a metal building and at some point it sounds cool to have those hodgepodge, but it also lends itself to distraction.

Yes, sir, Mr. Leonard. Nothing? Okay. All right. With that, I will entertain a motion if no one else has in statement or comment.

Properly made motion is second. Roll call, please.

Yes. With that, that concludes this case. Thank you all. Look for a motion to adjourn. Thank you.